Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-17
49th COngress---SecOnd Session.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1e, 1887.

what purported to be- the credentials David Turpie as senator for Indiana for th
 full term beginning March 4, 1887. Refel
 red to the committee on privileges and cleo
 tions.
 | MT. McMillan reported the river and hal
 Dor bill with amendments and said h
 would move that it be taken up to-morro1
 after the morning hour.
 A resolution offered yesterday by MI
 Hoar calling on the committee on privilege
 and elections to inquire whether the distric l attorney or marshal of the western distric
 of Texas has been attempting to obstruct tn | investigation of political outrages in Wash
 lngton county was taken up.
 | MT. Coke moved an amendment requiring
 notice of an investigation to be given thos | officials. He stated that he knew that tn,
 information on which the resolution wa | made was absolutely false, but that he hac l no objection to the investie ation. All there l was in 1t was that some of the witnesse! l summoned to Washington were afterwarc 1 subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury | at Austin.
 l The Hale bill to provide for the increase 1 of the naval establishments was then taker up. Mir. Butler offered an amendment pro viding that the words flor sea service" be 1 inserted.
 Mr. Hale opposed the amendment The bill was confined strictly to defensive, not te aggressive purposes.
 MT. Ingalls, rather favored the construction of fast cruisers to prey upon the commerce o1 the enemy, but he hoped that the Senate would pause in its headlong career to find out how much money there was in the treas ury and how far these bills would affect the surplus. He would like the Senate to have 8
 statement before voting for the SIS, 5000, ,00O in the present bill in addition to $21 ,000, COG voted for ordnance for coast defenses-hov long the fountain of Pactolus" would afford the golden stream necessary to meet the ap propriations which the Senate was making by unnumbered millions.
 MT. Hoar submitted telegram from the district attorney of the western district of Texas to the Attorney General which re- quested him to have the chairman of the committee telegraph him ''the names of important government witnesses who re- fuse to return to Texas and hold them sub- ponaed."
 MT. Coke said that the district attorney was simply performing his duty actively and fairly.
 MT. Cokes amendment was laid on the table and MT. Hoar's resolution was adopted by party vote of 30 to 19.
 Consideration of the Cameron bill to increase the naval establishment was then resumed. MT. Maxey spoke in favor of the bill
 The amendment offered yesterday by Mr. Hale(the $50,O ,O0O bonus penalty for each 11 knot above or below twenty knots an hourl was adopted and the bill with other amend ments passed. (The bill authorizes the con- struction of ten steel cruisers with suitable armament. Fifteen million dollars is ap- propriated for the cost, to be available dur ing five years, the maximum speed to be twenty knots per hour, three of the vessels to be constructed near the coast of the Pacific ocean, three near the Gulf of Mexico and four near the coast of the Allan tic ocean.)
 Mr cai1 f6o{f fhn o1 ture for all these bills would not exceed $12,- GOO, ,000 because it was to be spread over five years.
 MT. Butler said the question of surplus did not influence him at all He would vote for the bill if there was not dollar in the treasury.
 Mr. Vest said that in the history of the civilized world there was not a page of mal- administration equal to that of the Navy de- partment of the United States since 1865, and he wanted to know who to blame for ir. It was not the fault of Congress that the country had no ships and coast defenses. There had been expended for naval purposes $419, 9,0000 900 since the war. If British minister should make such an exhibis he would be pursued out of his place with exe- crations. If this Congress was to last fort night longer he believed that Congress would put Aladdin's lamp into the hands of re- ceiver.
 
 same speech every year since he had been in the Senate and had been answered by him. As for the Republican party being to blame the Democrats at the other end of the Capi- tol had always thrown themselves athwart any proposition to strengthen the navy The old story about the $420, 000 000 had been told again and again. But $60, 1000, ,000 of it had gone to the construction and repair of ships and the rest of it for the maintaining of the naval establishment.
 After party remarks by Mir. Hawley the bill went over without action. Mr. Hale said he would ask a vote on it tomorrow.
 MT. Blair offered resolutions in honor of his late colleague Senator Pike and addressed the Senate in eulogy of the deceased Senator. Further eulogies were delivered by senators Edmunds, Dolph, Mapderson, Jones of Ark ansas, George, Eyarts, Palmer and Cheney. The resolutions were then adopted and the Senate as further mark of respect at 4:45 
 HoUsE.-Mr. Belmont, from foreign af- fairs, reported back the Senate retaliation bill with substitute therefor, and gave mo- tice that he would ask it's consideration on Wednesday next. MT. Rice, of Massachu setts, gave notice that he would submit minority report. The only change in the substitute from that drawn up by the sub of the committee on foreign af fairs and heretofore published, aside from to rhraseology, is the insertion after the substitution against the entry of any locomotive, car or other vehicle of the words ''with any goods that may be con- tained therein" The third and last section of the sub committee bill providing for the appointment of commission to take testimo ny relative to losses inflicted by Canadian upon citizens of the United States is stricken out for the reason that bill GOV ering the same ground has been already re- al hvy4L 4Lao Tha the substitute is identical with that drawn up by the sub committee.
 A recess was taken until o'clock, at which hour, in pursuance of the previous order, public business discontinued and MT. Thomas, of Illinois, called up the Senate res of the late John A. Logan. (Mrs. Logan and 4 large number of friends occupied seats in the private gallery.
 Messrs Henderson of Illinois, Mckinley of Ohio and others delivered eulogies and then IS mark of respect to the memory of the the day Mrs. Logan, aecompa- lied by her son, occupied seats in the gallery reserved for the use of the Speaker.
 One Hundred And One Years old.
 SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb 16.-Mrs. Olive Clark died at the home of her son, Rev. Edward Clark, in this city this after loon, aged 1O1 years, months and 21 days. She was native of Williamsburg and spent 1 he greater part of her life on 8 farm at In 1909 she married Richard 1 Clark of Northampton and they lived to- 1 yether sixty years her husband dying | n 1876. Mrs. Clark's father lived to be 90 | md her mother was 104 years and 6 months | ,ld when she died. She leaves son who is l 76 years old, brother, Lewis w. Cleveland l ,f Skaneateles, N. Y., 91 years old and sis 1 CT, Mrs. Howard c. King of Otis county, N. l r., 97 years old.
 NO SEEDS FOR TEXAS. The President Vetoes the Bi1 for |
 Their Distribution. 1
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The President | ent to the House this afternoon veto of the l Jill to enable the commissioner of agriculture l o make distribution of seeds Tn Texas. He | avs after expressing sympathy with the suf- erers: s'I can find no warrant for such an | appropriation in the constitution and do l lot believe that the power and duty of the | overnment ought to be extended to individ- l al an ffaripp which ia io m unapnar proner-